The Prince LinnDrum Sound with Acoustic Drums
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2020
- It's known that Prince's favorite 1980s Linn Electronics machine was the first-generation LM-1, which made its way onto several of his biggest hits. More sparingly, he used the second generation LinnDrum, which you can hear on 1986's "Kiss." Today, we wanted to see if we could recreate the LinnDrum sound from that song the hard way, with no LinnDrum or electronic drums of any kind-only using acoustic drums and processors. Check out the video above, and click below to read more on Reverb.
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So we’re at a certain point where we use instruments to recreate the sound of machines that tried to recreate the sound of real instruments. Ace!
Not really. Some of those old drum machines weren't trying to imitate real drums, but to bring some unique sounds. The sound of acoustic drums was getting a bit boring for some of the music that was being made
George Agustí Álvarez I guess you’re referring to drum machines that use analog synthesis like for example Roland‘s 808 and 909. What I’m referring to in my original comment by saying ‚instruments’ are sample based drum machines like the LinnDrum or the Oberheim DMX. They in fact were created to emulate a real drum kit and hence where used by drummerless acts and bands. Sorry if I was unclear about that.
He don't have the machine, plus the revers process here is neat and unusual, so interesting indeed.
the lesson is to always look for your own sound
They were actually real drums sampled in the LM. Prince normally pitched them down, thus giving a less acoustic kit type sound he was famous for
"the hard way" like getting your hands on an LM-1 is easy
lol
Right?!
VProm 2.0 is a perfect Linn LM-1 emulator that can also load the eproms from other classic drum machines like the DMX and DrumTrax.
GarageBand on the iPhone comes with a great linndrum.
@@AdamBorseti Vprom is a marvellous imitation LinnDrumm
I can’t believe you left out the specs of the tone wallet sitting on top of the snare. Were there a couple 20’s inside? 2 or 3 maxed out credit cards?
I’m amazed at how good this sounded. That’s strong work.
That's a pretty big sound from only 3 instruments. Well done.
That's tons of compression for you ;)
You don’t have to be rich 2 rule my world!!! This was pretty cool!!! 👍
back in my day we use REAL Linn drums. kids nowadays have it easy *grump
Ahmad ilyas"And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids"
Yeah, they have their GarageBand and FL Studios.
Its expensive
The Revolution’s drum tone that Prince and Bobby Z created was definitely signature to those songs. This was a damn spot ON recreation! Excellent work!
It was only prince on that linn drum
Maybe you're referring to David Z, Bobby's brother, who came up with the sound production on Kiss. But Prince's Linn sound (When Doves Cry and countless others) is purely Prince producing himself.
Bobby Z is a fine player, but that's not him on Tamborine or the first twenty minutes of Parade. Or Lady Cab Driver. Or Bambi. Much less anything that Prince ever programmed on the Linn.
@@bonatoc well spoken
She really captured the feel with her playing. The engineering was great too.
This is really cool! Not what I was expecting, because I wanted to see vintage drum machines, but I love the technical details of how you guys did this. It would be so cool to see you do a technical walk-through of how to get that gated reverb sound acoustically as well.
That was awesome, you 2 did a fantastic job ... please do more Prince, he has so much great stuff to choose from, not only drums.
Thanks Reverb. You got it close as hell. Do more like this we are loving it.
This was beyond nerdiliciously amazing. Please put this out as a drum kit!
My first drum recordings ever were done with headphones as microphones. I put one right under the snare and hats, man it sounded terrible but I had never been so excited. Cool to see a throwback to headphone recordings, great vid!
Prince would've just stared at the drums for a while, until they realised how to sound. (ooh, can we do Prince facts like Chuck Norris facts? Prince once short-circuited his wah-wah pedal, because it actually started crying.)
LMAO!
Prince once slapped a bass so hard, the bass turned around to him and whispered in his ear, "do it harder, daddy ❤️".
@@DeadWhiteButterflies ✊
Prince didn't wear high heels. After listening to Do Me Baby, his Vans got a boner.
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Sounds really good, well done! Love the wallet on the snare touch!
Maybe next time make the video longer than five minutes and actually explain *how* you got the sounds you got. There are some really cool ideas here but "We added a ton of processing" doesn't tell us a whole lot about what you actually did in post to get the sound!
Id imagine a SHIT load of gate
Thank you
Use your imagination muscles.
That sounds awesome. Very creative. Well done!
Amazing sound and love the recording techniques!
That was awesome. So many techniques in one short vid. Thank you.
For anyone wanting the linn sound, check out the Junn JM-1 VST, it’s completely free and sounds great
tell it to these idiots
Theres one called DJ Dinn or something along those lines thats free that also lets you mess with the mixing and pitch like a real Linn Drum too!
@@brooklynboy1000 Why so hostile?
That was awesome, please make more these!
Excellent stuff. I love this company and the people who work there seem so nice!
Cool vid! More of these please. Sometimes things get too High Brow and it’s nice to get back to basics of when we couldn’t afford nice gear or had to make due with what we have to find the sounds we want.
Well done!!! I never thought to use headphones on a snare, cool idea; I will try it out in the future. I have used a set of Audio-Technica head phones as mics taped close to the lower side of a bridge on a jumbo acoustic guitar. It sounds a bit like two single coil pickups set out of phase; this set up allows a stereo input from the front and back of the guitar, which fills in the signal a little bit.
Best acoustic drum kit I've ever heard!
Makes me wish I never quit music class. Excellent sound!
Ok, I loved this a little too much. Great work!
Close? N'all, that was a LOT more accurate to the way Prince had his Linn Drum patterns sound. Very accurate, dead-on.
If Prince Rogers Nelson heard what y'all did and saw how y'all did it, he would've been proud.
The highest possible compliment. Thanks for watching!
@@Reverb Welcome as always. Planning to get some things from your store soon as well. Can't wait!
proud, or mad that someone figured out his secrets! he was known to be competitive...
Wow. Great job recreating this. I love seeing stuff like this.. plus: J-Burd! haha, awesome to see her getting recognized. i used to follow her on Insta long time ago.
Boom, here she is, smashin a Kiss replica!
Fantastic work!!!
Love it! Nicely done.
cool stuff... never heard anyone describe a vistalite having a "warm" attack lol.
Vistalites are warm and loud, especially if you've got a vintage one with coated heads
Probably one of the least warm drums you could use lol
tell that to the 4 sets i've worked with....
It's definitely not the same as a 3 ply vintage kit. But there is a certain unique, powerful warm tone.
The warm sound comes just when u kill it with lot of pillows.
I’ve had several LinnDrums, this was a lot of fun 😊
Amazing work!
INCREDIBLE!!!! Kudos aplenty!!!
Fantastic sound.
really cool . I love these vids.
Sounds awesome, I love it!
Cool!👍 Very interesting. Great job guys
Killer!! Great job guys!!
You guys nailed it.
Really bang on. Very impressive!!!
Sounds really awesome
Well this was fun. Really enjoyed it!
LOVE it ! :D Great work ! :D
this was brilliant more prince stuff !!
Sounds better and more lively.good job!
You guys are frickin geniuses wow! that sounded close to the original.
Roger Linn: "[Prince] was very important to my success. He didn’t just select a stock beat and press ‘play,’ but rather used it in unusual and creative ways, from detuning the drums to no longer sound like drums to the unusual beats he programmed to how he featured it in the mix" - No surprise, Prince was a genius with electronic instruments, too.
Sounds great; thanks : D
This is excellent content 🙌
Very nice work........
Sounds like a Linn drum to me. Great job 👍 guys.
I bought a Linndrum ($2500) the year it came out, used it for many years and many upgrades. I think you’ve nailed it. Sold it in the 00s ($175) to a Christian group, it quit working couple years later, and the group didn’t want to pay Forat $350 to repair it! It’s still in the bandleader’s attic.
So dope. Great job
Wow i really enjoyed this very interesting as well as satisfying great work..
Really cool video!!
Close enough. Good job guys
Utterly amazing
The Linn LM-1 was heard in the song "Kiss" (1986).
This is really cool. I think it would be interesting to try to get those sounds using purely acoustic treatment on the drums, as if you were a drummer in a low-budget Prince cover band showing up at a dive bar where the best you can hope for is to get miked up.
but real talk that is a legendary kick/snare sound, good ear and creativity putting this together!
Awesome job!
Sounds pretty damn good. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend then.
Sounds pretty spot-on.
loved the headphone trick! almost sounds like a phone mic
I love this so much.
Great video!
It sounds great!
Its really really...great...thanks a lot...i learned alot!
That was a fun little trip 🙏
Amazing loved it
dope af. killer toneage.
Very close. Great job.
Loved it.I,ve been working on SignO the Times with my double pedal.I'd like to hear your version.
Sound amazing
Nice job !!
A lot of people call the Linn LM-1 "Linndrum" and is not real, the two are made by Roger Linn but they are different machines guys. The drum sound of Prince that you're trying to recreate is from the Linn LM-1 Drum Computer not the Linndrum wich is the successor of the LM-1.
Actually, Kiss was recorded using a Linn 9000, so you're both wrong.
Well done!
So good!
Great video. Still waiting for someone with to much spare time to do an acoustic recreation of the 909 kick! =)
Brilliant, necessary and I fully support this concept. Linn sounds awesome, bout time drums got into screwing with the formula. The sounds are interesting and now they're in the hands of a human player = new options.
I don’t know about the kick but snare was impressive.
That snare was a lot punchier and less sizzly (a good thing really) than the Linn
This actually sounds hella cool.
Amazing!
Super cool, still plenty of Linn drum samples for free on the internet. But, it’s fun and why not.
Really cool!
Educational, thanks ..
Actually it sounds pretty damm close to it , Awesome! I love it!
Very creative exercise👍
Super cool!
“Kiss” sounds totally unlike anything on the radio in the 80’s and unlike any of Prince’s other songs. A lot of this is thanks to producer/engineer David Z. From this Sound on Sound article, he explains how they got the really cool rhythm guitar sound: “Anyway, starting with a LinnDrum, I programmed the beat and began experimenting. Taking a hi-hat from the drum machine, I ran it through a delay unit and switched between input and output and in the middle. That created a very funky rhythm. Then I took an acoustic guitar, played these open chords and gated that to the hi-hat trigger. The result was a really unique rhythm that was unbelievably funky but also impossible to actually play... I'm sure that sound influenced the fabulous new Daft Punk song 'Get Lucky', because it uses the same trick, with the guitar gated to some sort of rhythm and sequencer.”
Prince's bass player Mark Brown aka BrownMark had A LOT to do with the song " KISS" but was NEVER properly credited. Not to take anything away from David Z. but interesting he's NEVER been able to do it again...hmmmmm I wonder WHY??? BrownMark from The Revolution on the other hand recorded FIVE solo albums and currently working on a NEW one as we speak...Just sayin...go figure
amazing!
very impressive
Excellent! No criticism here, but the kick verb on the record sounds like a Yamaha Rev7 to me. It had a super gritty/sandy sound sound that is so unique.
it’s like watching magicians create their own version of a famous magic trick and then exposing their secret of their trick.
So cool !
Incredible!!!! Sssooo cool!
Wow, geeking out! Sounds awesome... but I got this sample I think I'll use, LOL. But yeah, great sound.
Spot on!
amazing